Mad as hell and
determined not to take it anymore (so to speak), Idaho senator
Larry Craig lashed out at his main tormenter Mitt Romney in an
interview that was broadcast late Tuesday on NBC.

"I'd worked hard for him here in the
state," Craig said to Matt Lauer. "Hey, what's the matter with you, Lauer?
There's nothing funny about the word 'hard'. I was a co-chair of Romney's
campaign on Capitol Hill. And he not only threw me under his campaign bus,
he backed up and ran over me again. Then he got out of the bus and kicked
me in the kidneys before I had a chance to get up. Then he compared me to
Bill Clinton. But when he went back to the bus with a bucket and began
siphoning gasoline, that's when I knew it was time for me to blow off him
and his psychotic campaign once and for all. Hey, what the hell is the matter with
you Lauer? There's nothing funny about the phrase 'blow off'"

Romney, sensing that the future of his
campaign was hanging in the balance, insisted that the whole episode 'was
nothing but an unfortunate understanding''.

"I believe that God loves all his children,
although I suppose that it's fair to call the gays his illegitimate
children," Romney said apologetically. "Larry left my campaign because he
didn't want to be a distraction, and while perhaps it's true that I threw him
under the bus, the backing up and running over him again part was purely
accidental. I was just going back to check on him and whoops, there he
was. And the part about me comparing him to Clinton is simply not true.
Bill Clinton likes chicks."